It's a salt cellar. It holds salt for service on a formal dining table. You own it because you like both Alton Brown and Martha Stewart. (Do you?)

And we have a winner, with correct answers to all questions.

"Finishing salts" are really trendy right now, so I want to make it clear that I had that salt cellar in my collection before salt became "k3wl".
Alton Brown is very funny and I am a total Martha Wannabe...

Well, you got the part I said I wasn't going to require, but it's not a pepper mill. If no one gets it by the time I get to work in the morning (where I bookmarked the page where I found it) I'll give you the win.

____________DavidSitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Well, you got the part I said I wasn't going to require, but it's not a pepper mill. If no one gets it by the time I get to work in the morning (where I bookmarked the page where I found it) I'll give you the win.